Site where Sandra Cantu's body was found (L), Melissa Huckaby (top right), and Sandra Cantu (bottom right). (AP)
Investigators have found disturbing information on the computer of Melissa Huckaby, the Sunday school teacher accused of the abduction, rape, and murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.
According to authorities, Huckaby’s hard drive contained multiple Internet searches about a murdered child in Israel. To see the video report, click here.
The child, 4-year-old Rose Pisam disappeared about a year ago and was missing for months. Later, the girl’s grandfather was arrested and confessed to stuffing Rose’s body in a suitcase, which he dumped in a local river.
The similarities between the Sandra Cantu murder and the Rose Pisam case are startling:
- Huckaby lived with her grandparents in the same mobile home park as the Cantu family—Rose’s mother, Marie Pisam, 23, was living with Ronnie Ron, 45, the girl’s grandfather.
- Huckaby’s grandfather was the pastor at a church in Washington State during the 1980s where allegations of abuse were raised—Rose’s grandfather and mother were in a romantic relationship (Rose’s mother was married to Ron’s son Benjamin at the time).
- Sandra’s body was found inside a suitcase in a drained irrigation ditch—Rose’s body was stuffed inside a suitcase placed in a river.
Huckaby has not yet entered a plea in the case and is scheduled for another court hearing June 12.
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Poor people shacking up with grandparents is not a startling similarity.
No, living with grandparents is not a startling similarity, though it is a similarity. But murdering a child, stuffing her in a suitcase and throwing the case in water in both cases, those are startling similarities.
Um, I do not see this reported anywhere in the press; do you have a source by any chance?
This story is all over the Internet. Starting back in April. Just search "huckaby rose pisam." This Examiner story is the first time I saw it though.
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